Murphy v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Cook county for $7,500, in favor of the plaintiff and appellee, Katherine Murphy, against the city of Chicago, defendant and appellant.

The judgment was obtained in a suit brought against the city for an accident occurring, as plaintiff alleged, through a defect in the sidewalk on the west side of Morgan street between Thirty-third place and Thirty-fourth place. The date of the accident was March 3, 1905. The negligence of the city was alleged to be that it had for a long period of time prior to said date suffered and permitted certain…